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Chicago examiner friday december 4 1908 14 pages v,ol vi no 299 a m price one cent delwea by carrier 30 cents per month charles p Taft to get foraker seat in the senate says vorys opposition to brother of presi dent-elect gives way to influences cabinet job for burton herrick promised support in race for dick's place when term expires mot springs va dec 3 the ohio organization is for charles p Taft for senator and i believe that he will be elected to succeed foraker in the united states senate said arthur vorys of ohio who stopped off here to-day to visit the president-elect vorys and mr Taft had a long talk i at the tjift cottage this afternoon in the course of which the entire politi cal situation was canvassed with par ticular reference to conditions in ohio it has already been officially an nounced that the president-elect will take no part in the selection of a suc cessor to foraker and this perhaps is true as judge taft's friends have made this unnecessary by espousing the cause of his brother themselves as announced by mr vorys to-day no official action has been taken by the ohio organization and mr vorys declared that even he had not formally announced his support of charles p Taft but it may be written down in as certain terms as political forecasts can be made that charles p Taft will succeed joseph b foraker in the united states senate on march 4 next but little trouble is expected from foraif tji republicans will have a mat v - i Â«.*& legislature of tirtr iu joint ballot / longworth gives way for a time congressman nicholas longworth son-in-law of the presi dent thought he bad a chance for the place but all the opposition to charles p Taft save that to be encountered from foraker has now been crossed out in this process cabinet port folios figure not inconspicuously representative theodore burton who placed Taft in nomination at Chicago and myron t . herrick both had to be looked after as both wanted to go to the senate herrick has consented to stay out of the race this year with the understanding that he is to have a clear field at the expiration of senator dick's term as to burton it was first proposed to make him speaker of the house to succeed cannon but now that peace practically has beeu made be tween Taft and cannon there is a practical certainty that burton will go into the cabinet but whether as secretary of the treasury or secretary of state has not been determined cabinet place for burton president-elect taft's original plan was to build his cabinet around elihu root as secretary of state postmaster general meyer was to become secretary of the treasury national chairman hitchcock postmaster general frank b kellogg of minnesota attorney general etc root's absolute refusal to remain ln the cabinet upset all the president-elect's plans and compelled an entire reshaping of his plans candidates fit ones for sec retary of state are not plentiful and there ls some prospect now that burtou may be come secretary of state this however depends npon whether Taft falls in his search for a better man there has been some suggestion of meyer for the state portfolio and senator lodge of massachu setts is seriously considered though it ia not believed he could be induced to give up his job in the senate but burton has been notified that he will be wanted in ihe cabinet david jayne hill may be successor to root washington d c dec 3 david ayne hill ambassador to germany may e the man to succeed elihu root as sec etary of state though postmaster gen ral meyer and theodore burton are still ijjsldered possibilities mr hill's friends hink mr Taft could make no better se ectlon of a man to assume the serious re ponsibillties of the office on which amer can expansion is making such increased emands mr hill who is accredited to new york as advanced steadily in the diplomatic service he was at one time assistant ecretary of state and his long diplomatic xperlencc has amply qualified him to han le the affairs of the state department the brief unpleasantness caused by the taiser several months ago when he de ired a man of greater wealth to represent his country at berlin has disappeared it ls well understood by mr tuft that be man wlio follows root into the depart ment will have a most difficult task be ore hlni even with the japanese prob john w gates enters circus business just to stir up the animals forced into sawdust competition by hippodrome connection million aire will start show galveston tex dec 3 john w gates the millionaire who is now making liis home at port arthur tex has added another spectacular project to his enter prises and ls going into the circus busi ness he declares he was forced into the business through bis connection with the hippodrome ln new york but now that he is in the venture he will give it a good trial he plans to put out one of the best if not largest aggregation of animals ever seen ln one show the bostock collection of animals has been acquired as well as other animals from defunct circuses and dealers it is understood negotiations are pending for the rhoda royal show and that the new circus will make lis appear ance next spring as an independent con cern ' mr gates admits he ls not alone in the venture and that his associates whose names he will not divulge are not only putting up many thousands of dollars but as he expresed it they are throwing in the experience which cannot be measured in dollars and eents now that we are to invest our money ln the circus gamble for all deals nre gambles we propose making it a hummer from start to finish it appears to me other circuses and even a combination or as texas would say a circus octopus are making money ln the investments and i am going to invest a few coppers just to stir up the animals brother-in-law of kipling is arrested charged with taking 300 of prop erty woman left in his care brattleboro vt dec . 3 on a charge of appropriating to his own use goods and property valued at 300 b s balestier brother-in-law of rudyard kip ling was arrested here this morning and locked up in the county jail to-night he was released in ball of 1,000 pending ac tion of the grand jury the charge ls made by mrs agnes a baker a wealthy woman of cleveland who has a big summer home here bales tier is a real estate agent and when mrs baker departed she left property in his care she charges that balestier stripped the place of everything movable and rented all of the tillable ground and sold every thing salable heroine saves life of man on ocean liner california woman rescues passenger being swept off by giant wave new york dec 3 through the pluck of a california woman mrs william an gus wife of the president of haywards electric lighting coc^any at haywards cal a passenger on the anchor line steam ship which arrived here to-day was saved from being hurled overboard by a giant wave the passenger was david beam a scotchman of wealth he was slammed against the bulkhead his shoulder dislo cated and was nearly swept overboard when mrs angus grabbed him and held him till rescuers arrived 3,000,000 phone co wrecked by morse stockholders of defunct concern start an investigation new york dec 3 to learn whether or not the 3,000,000 telephone telegraph & cable company of america formerly of 100 broadway was wrecked by the american bell telephone company assisted by chnrles w morse is the real object of an investigation being made by the receiv ers and stockholders of which the nominal object is to ascertain the real and beneficial ownership of notes aggregating 80,000 upon which the insolvency proceedings were based in march 1906 350 lives are reported lost in big typhoon 35 japanese fishing boats wrecked off hatsu island tokio dec 3 thirty-five japanese fishing boats were caught in a typhoon yesterday off hatsu island ln kawatsu bay and wrecked it is reported that 350 fishermen lost tbelr lives jay gould plans aeronaut's career grandson of famous financier will purchase best aero plane made student of air flight joins university aero club \ says it's greater sport ' than tennis new york dec 3 jay gould grand son of the late jay-gould who knew all about financial ballooning announced him self to-night as an enthusiastic sfudent of aeronautics and within a few days will purchase an aeroplane of the most prac tical kind that can be obtained young gould after gaining a world's champion ship at court tennis ft seeking other worlds to conquer although i ain but a recent convert to the study of aeronautics said mr gould to-night at the meeting of the recently formed columbia university aero club in faculty hall i never experienced such an enthusiasm for anything ln my life ten nis ls nothing in comparison the more i heaifabout the fight to conquer the air the more i want to take part ln the con quering of it i shall spare no effort to accomplish my desire to purchase aeroplane i intend to purchase an aeroplane of the most practical kind as soon as i have decided which is best i shall run it my self i ahall continue my studies ln aeron autics every spare moment i can devote to the entrancing problem i hope to try demonstrate and improve at a meeting of the club young gould read a thesis which was declared interest ing learned yet comprehensive almost from the flrst sentence he talked about balloons and the density and displacement of bodies ln the air as well as the acoom plishments of the wright brothers in as familiar a way as did his grandfather forty years ago of gold when prices went soar ing and set wall street in a panic congratulated by experts wlhen young gould had finished the old time students of aerial problems present dr charles c trowbridge a m herring wilbur r kimball dr julian p thomas and augustus fost who had also addressed the club on-t ifironnnti topic jt>ool hands vlth the thesis reader and predicted that he would eclipse anything yel done in the latest of sciences the new cluh has for its officers the fol lowing president robert ludlow fowler jr flrst vice president grover cleveland loening second vice president george henry warren jr secretary and treas urer harold a content mr loening was the first student to enter the new course in addition to young gould's thesis an other was read by h g henderson jr and a number of stereopticon slides were exhibited illustrating points made in the various addresses much married widow seeks pfaff millions london woman who secured south dakota divorce making fight i boston mass dec 3 a story of mar riages and divorces that took place with the bewildering rapidity of a kaleidoscope was told on the witness stand to-day by mrs christine pfaff of london england whoj although she admits that she secured a sonth dakota divorce claims to be the real and only widow of the late henry pfaff the brewer who left a million dollar estate to mrs louise c pfaff my wife although she got the divoroe she says it was illegal and proved so when lu 1901 she brought suit for 2 r ooo hack alimony nnd pfaff fought it on the grounds that the divorce was not valid the courts upheld him she said she was married in 1897 to samuel bograt but it was only a joke marriage in 1899 she married b c cass an englishman but left him when she learned her divorce from pfaff was illegal germain consul wever to receive degree of ll d university of Chicago will honor diplomat who goes to africa at tlie convocation on december is the i'niverslty of Chicago will confer ou dr waiter wever imperial german consul general at Chicago the honorary degree of doctors of laws this is in recognition of his valuable service in helping to bring about a friendly understanding und inter change between the educational institutions of the two countries dr wever was large ly concerned in organizing the germanistlc society of Chicago under whose auspices universities in germany and the united states exchange professors temporarily dr wever has been appointed consul gen eral in south africa two villages wrecked by mountain landslides twenty-seven dead and ten injured are taken from debris rome dec 3 a landslide at mount san lucano near agordo wrecked the vil lages of pra and lagunaz to-day the bodies of twenty-seven dead and ten in jured persons have been taken out of the debris dr bull's death is near new york dec 3 the death of dr william t bull the eminent new york surgeon is hourly expected dr bull has been suffering with cancer and he has realized recently that his end was near millions in trust's false sugar scale secret spring inserted when the government appraisers weigh shipments device shown in court detective illustrates how cor poration cheated with a steel corset rib new york dec 3 richard parr a special agent of the united states treas ury told under oath to-day before commis sioned shields of how he had trapped the american sugar refining company ln a practice that would shame a mean and cheating small grocer tampering with the scales they bad loaned to the government so that they recorded short weight on the sugar unloaded from the ships for appraise ment the scales were normally correct and would stand inspection according to the testimony of parr but by means of a secret spring attached by the agents of the sugnr trust tbey registered far short of the correct weight agent pait ls the chief witness for the prosecution in the seven suits brought against the american sugar refining com ! pany to recover customs duties aggre \ gating 3,624,1^1.15 for the alleged fraudu lent weighing of sugar imported during thei past six years as he is about to leave the city on an important government mission his examination was put forward so that he could testify to-day he said that on november 20 1907 he visited the docks of the havenieyer & el der refinery in williamsburg where sugar from the steamship spiathyre was being unloaded and weighed in the course of the investigation he^made there he discov ered steel springs fhieh had been inserted in holes in the beams of the wooden plat fcim scales and found that they interfered with the accurate weighing of the sugar taken from the steamship when the steel springs were removed said agent parr and the lots of sugar rewclgbed the weight of each lot was in creased on an average of fourteen pounds agent parr said that he took possession of the springs and with the identical articles demonstrated while he was testify ing to-day how the device worked the wooden beams of the scales being among the government's exhibits in the case the seventeen sets cf scales on the sugar docks by the manipulation of the secret spring or steel wire all registered false weights in favor of the company " fiaid agent parr i found the posts of all of them bored so that the steel spriugs could be inserted in such a manner as to rest on the arm or lever of the scale and by its pressure deceive the government weigher while the bags of sugar were be ing weighed photographs of all the scales with the steel spring attachment were placed in evidence as government exhibits agent parr was closely cross-examined by henry p cochrane representing the reflning com pany he said that before entering the customs service he had been a clerk for dan deogau of rochester who har priv ileges at fairs and race tracks and was later employed in a stock broker's office ln this city he admitted that during the last twenty years he had at different times owned race horses during the ten years that you have been in the government's service did you ever do duty at the sugar docks in brook lyn v i was a sugar sampler for about a month in 1w0 while there did you notice anything wroug in the weighing of sugar unloaded rrom steamships not until november im 1907 when 1 fouud the piece of corset steel on scale no 1 which prevented the drafts of sugar from being weigued correctly you made memoranda regarding those cases did you uot i did but my book was stolen or re moved from my desk in the custom house about the first part of this year do you know a man named whalley parr said that he expected to get extra compensation if the government won the suits girl slayer is exonerated widow's attack prevented g-irl absolved from blame in killing henry hornberger in a dispute over a crayon portrait and widow of slain man and companion leaving inquest ooroneii's jury declares es telle stout not responsible a'vhen bpfe-??not agent - women are hysterical mrs hornberger prevented from violence to accused by inquest officers | thank god thank god i am uot ullty of any wrongdoing ob 1 am so ladf it is a shame a shame to let a girl ike that go she ought to be punished i'hls thing is not through with yet m these two sharply opposing sentiments rolced impulsively by two women yester lay just after a coroner's jury had exon erated miss estelle stout of 778 west danis street for halving shot and killed henry h hornberger a picture dealer ivho had attacked miss stout's sister mrs leorge chambers formed the climax of an investigation replete with inci lent one of the women w-fti miss stout and tin other the widow of the slain man miss stout was almost hysterical with joy ind mrs hornberger was beside herself ivith grief and rage widow attacks girl slayer at the beginning of the inquest mrs hornberger had attempted to attack miss stout and a policeman had to restrain her during the four hours of testimony taking the widow and the sister of the accused young woman wept continuously hut it was not until after the jury had rendered its verdict that miss stout found relief in tears while the witnesses were on the stand she held herself in tense constraint and she did not falter even when reciting iter own version of how she had iakeu a liuinnn life \ there was a sharp conflict of testimony on the point of whether hornberger was inside the chambers house or walking to ward the street when he was shot mrs mary carlson 780 west adams street said the man was outside the house and walk ing toward his wagon when he was shot mrs elizabeth littlejohn 023 west adams street testuied that she heard a shot and then saw hornberger leave the house herbert eicke 928 north winchester ave nue said hornberger did not leave the house nt all but staggered out from an areaway between the chambers bouse and nnother residence sisters tell of threats the testimony of miss stout and mrs hambers agreed their statement was hat mrs chambers and hornberger strug gled for the possession of a crayon portrait jf a dead sister of the two women and mrs chambers hand was cut on the frame hornberger threatened to shoot mrs chambers and theu struck her and knocked her dowu miss stout ran to mother room procured a pistol returned j ind shot at hornberger he then left the louse nnd went to his wagon and miss tout did not know that she had wounded ilm until he sank to the pavement and lied the verdict of the jury read that miss stout was laboring under intense exeite nent and fear for the life of herself and lister and we the jory recommend her elease from custoiij - .^ missing nobleman sought in Chicago young wanderer to gain title by death of father earl of glencoe gideon lord of glencoe said to be heir to a scottish title and estates is a wan derer in america perhaps in Chicago ills sister lady maud has engaged the serv ices of a Chicago lawyer to find hlni so that he may be informed that his father karl of glencoe is dead and he the only son has come into the succession attorney patrick j carey who has for some weeks been in correspondence with lady maud expects to start for england within a few days to confer with the fam ily the young lord left his ancestral home among the grampiou hills to tramp about the world for a few years attorney carey states that all was not pleasant at home between the youth and his ather who was ailing and a hypochondriac dis satisfaction with these relations led the hlgh-splrlted young man who is not yet eighteen years old to depart with the re solve that lie would buffet about in strange lands until he had reached his majority he remained in communication with his sister for several months after his depart ure he wrote from xew york later from windsor ont and last on september 22 from Chicago but iu none of the letters did he write how he could be communi cated with or how he was making his way which left no clew by which he could be successfully traced his father the karl died on august l'4 the title has not been prominent during the lifetime of the late earl who was a secluded bookworm the estate also has dwindled and is not of the maguiticeut im portance which it once commanded and therefore the death of the earl was uot broadly heralded through the world it ls regarded as quite probable that the young nobleman is not yet aware of hl-s father's death hurke's peerage the authority on british titles does uot show an entry of the earl of glencoe nor any ether noble family of that name nor the surname of attorney carey's correspond ent cleudenuiu 150,000 art shipment seized in Chicago customs officers see evidence of smuggling plot in three mysterious crates all hold rare antiques priceless fabrics and other ob jects may be loot from french monasteries were declared at 2,000 consigned from london t new yorker claimed by chi cago brokers year later a collection of almost price less antiques tapestries vel ours vestments and rugs torn from the wallÃŸ and taken from the cloisters of old french monasteries where they probably had rested for centuries is ln the hands of the united states customs officials in Chicago the presence of the collection in tha hands of the seizure bureau is the cli max of an international mystery the customs officers assisted by se cret service men are looking for the owners of this shipment of rare treas ures such as would delight the-heart of any connoisseur in the world they believe that they have unearthed a deep-laid plot to smusglo the goods into the country . boxed up in the office of thomas a o'shaughnessy appraiser of the port of Chicago are these richly embroid ered hand-wrought treasures some of them as brilliant in coloring and as delicate of tracing as the day on which they were finished others showing the ravages of time and the wear and tear | of centuries easily traced to france the whole forms a collection such as is 1 seldom seen in this country it ia one to | delight the heart of a j pierpont morgan a william a clark a j ogden armour a james hobart moore a charles l hutchin son or a mrs cyrus h mccormick all col lectors of note and known equally well iu europe and america experts who have examined these an tiques say that they came from france they are all ecclesiastical jn character and they came from the ancient french mon asteries at the time of the separation of churel and state a fÂ«v years ago when the religious orders were driven from the country whether the monasteries were despoiled of their treasure or whether they were purchased from the monks t tl time that they were forced to leave their liauitatious is n question that the united states government is now trying to solve some articles bear dates in the lot are a silken hand-woven and hand-worked robe believed to have been at one time the property of a pope a piece of hand-wrought embroidery evi dently a panel with a likeness of st john the baptist worked in brilliant colors and bearing a sixteenth century date a hand-paiuted panel of the madonna and child made in the sixteenth century women's costumes of the most delicate fabrics beautifully embroidered such as were woru ln the seventeenth century an old chinese hunting mat woveh iu the fifteenth century a large panel of red italian velour em broidered with au ancient coat of arms several altar cloths woven of pure silver and golden threads with hand made gold and sliver fringe considered priceless indian hunting carpets of the most fan tastic design came by way of england other pieces in the collection are velvets nets of old italian filets pieces of fine old brussels gorgeous tapestries all kinds of old hangings panels evidently stripped bodily from some ancient palace or mon astery table covers exquisite in their delicacy persian and turkish rugs all very old thirty pieces of rare old lace fifty vestments page garments women's vestments and church furnishings the ownership of these treasures to shrouded ln mystery they evidently were first shipped from france to eng land from london they were shipped to ( hicago in bond the records show that the consignor is one s hobiuson the consignee is one benqulat the latter la thought te bo a new york dealer in an tiques the valuation placed on the goods hy the shippers was 2,000 they have lain in the Chicago customs boaae for more than a year one crate taken away about four weeks ago walesa a mc laughlin brokers at 362 Illinois street acting as agents for the mysterious con continue-d on 2d page 2d column wll weather forecast m t i Chicago and vicinity snow f j $ 3 or rain friday saturday clearing Â«.| \ \ and colder brisk to high south jjtf mji shifting to northwest winds w andrew mack's latest and greatest song sometime somewhere every night takes the audience at the audito rium theater bv storm words and music free with the next great sunday examiner place your order now i***^^^^^^^~^^mmmmmmmmmmmm mm t m^mmm*smstjr m^p in the rush 1 of christmas shopping it is not un ftjjtu likely that one will lose one's purse vs j \ quick recovery is made possible by v j the insertion of a small ad in the 1 j examiner's lost and found column ljm phone randolph 2500 &Â§&.

Chicago examiner friday december 4 1908 14 pages v,ol vi no 299 a m price one cent delwea by carrier 30 cents per month charles p Taft to get foraker seat in the senate says vorys opposition to brother of presi dent-elect gives way to influences cabinet job for burton herrick promised support in race for dick's place when term expires mot springs va dec 3 the ohio organization is for charles p Taft for senator and i believe that he will be elected to succeed foraker in the united states senate said arthur vorys of ohio who stopped off here to-day to visit the president-elect vorys and mr Taft had a long talk i at the tjift cottage this afternoon in the course of which the entire politi cal situation was canvassed with par ticular reference to conditions in ohio it has already been officially an nounced that the president-elect will take no part in the selection of a suc cessor to foraker and this perhaps is true as judge taft's friends have made this unnecessary by espousing the cause of his brother themselves as announced by mr vorys to-day no official action has been taken by the ohio organization and mr vorys declared that even he had not formally announced his support of charles p Taft but it may be written down in as certain terms as political forecasts can be made that charles p Taft will succeed joseph b foraker in the united states senate on march 4 next but little trouble is expected from foraif tji republicans will have a mat v - i Â«.*& legislature of tirtr iu joint ballot / longworth gives way for a time congressman nicholas longworth son-in-law of the presi dent thought he bad a chance for the place but all the opposition to charles p Taft save that to be encountered from foraker has now been crossed out in this process cabinet port folios figure not inconspicuously representative theodore burton who placed Taft in nomination at Chicago and myron t . herrick both had to be looked after as both wanted to go to the senate herrick has consented to stay out of the race this year with the understanding that he is to have a clear field at the expiration of senator dick's term as to burton it was first proposed to make him speaker of the house to succeed cannon but now that peace practically has beeu made be tween Taft and cannon there is a practical certainty that burton will go into the cabinet but whether as secretary of the treasury or secretary of state has not been determined cabinet place for burton president-elect taft's original plan was to build his cabinet around elihu root as secretary of state postmaster general meyer was to become secretary of the treasury national chairman hitchcock postmaster general frank b kellogg of minnesota attorney general etc root's absolute refusal to remain ln the cabinet upset all the president-elect's plans and compelled an entire reshaping of his plans candidates fit ones for sec retary of state are not plentiful and there ls some prospect now that burtou may be come secretary of state this however depends npon whether Taft falls in his search for a better man there has been some suggestion of meyer for the state portfolio and senator lodge of massachu setts is seriously considered though it ia not believed he could be induced to give up his job in the senate but burton has been notified that he will be wanted in ihe cabinet david jayne hill may be successor to root washington d c dec 3 david ayne hill ambassador to germany may e the man to succeed elihu root as sec etary of state though postmaster gen ral meyer and theodore burton are still ijjsldered possibilities mr hill's friends hink mr Taft could make no better se ectlon of a man to assume the serious re ponsibillties of the office on which amer can expansion is making such increased emands mr hill who is accredited to new york as advanced steadily in the diplomatic service he was at one time assistant ecretary of state and his long diplomatic xperlencc has amply qualified him to han le the affairs of the state department the brief unpleasantness caused by the taiser several months ago when he de ired a man of greater wealth to represent his country at berlin has disappeared it ls well understood by mr tuft that be man wlio follows root into the depart ment will have a most difficult task be ore hlni even with the japanese prob john w gates enters circus business just to stir up the animals forced into sawdust competition by hippodrome connection million aire will start show galveston tex dec 3 john w gates the millionaire who is now making liis home at port arthur tex has added another spectacular project to his enter prises and ls going into the circus busi ness he declares he was forced into the business through bis connection with the hippodrome ln new york but now that he is in the venture he will give it a good trial he plans to put out one of the best if not largest aggregation of animals ever seen ln one show the bostock collection of animals has been acquired as well as other animals from defunct circuses and dealers it is understood negotiations are pending for the rhoda royal show and that the new circus will make lis appear ance next spring as an independent con cern ' mr gates admits he ls not alone in the venture and that his associates whose names he will not divulge are not only putting up many thousands of dollars but as he expresed it they are throwing in the experience which cannot be measured in dollars and eents now that we are to invest our money ln the circus gamble for all deals nre gambles we propose making it a hummer from start to finish it appears to me other circuses and even a combination or as texas would say a circus octopus are making money ln the investments and i am going to invest a few coppers just to stir up the animals brother-in-law of kipling is arrested charged with taking 300 of prop erty woman left in his care brattleboro vt dec . 3 on a charge of appropriating to his own use goods and property valued at 300 b s balestier brother-in-law of rudyard kip ling was arrested here this morning and locked up in the county jail to-night he was released in ball of 1,000 pending ac tion of the grand jury the charge ls made by mrs agnes a baker a wealthy woman of cleveland who has a big summer home here bales tier is a real estate agent and when mrs baker departed she left property in his care she charges that balestier stripped the place of everything movable and rented all of the tillable ground and sold every thing salable heroine saves life of man on ocean liner california woman rescues passenger being swept off by giant wave new york dec 3 through the pluck of a california woman mrs william an gus wife of the president of haywards electric lighting coc^any at haywards cal a passenger on the anchor line steam ship which arrived here to-day was saved from being hurled overboard by a giant wave the passenger was david beam a scotchman of wealth he was slammed against the bulkhead his shoulder dislo cated and was nearly swept overboard when mrs angus grabbed him and held him till rescuers arrived 3,000,000 phone co wrecked by morse stockholders of defunct concern start an investigation new york dec 3 to learn whether or not the 3,000,000 telephone telegraph & cable company of america formerly of 100 broadway was wrecked by the american bell telephone company assisted by chnrles w morse is the real object of an investigation being made by the receiv ers and stockholders of which the nominal object is to ascertain the real and beneficial ownership of notes aggregating 80,000 upon which the insolvency proceedings were based in march 1906 350 lives are reported lost in big typhoon 35 japanese fishing boats wrecked off hatsu island tokio dec 3 thirty-five japanese fishing boats were caught in a typhoon yesterday off hatsu island ln kawatsu bay and wrecked it is reported that 350 fishermen lost tbelr lives jay gould plans aeronaut's career grandson of famous financier will purchase best aero plane made student of air flight joins university aero club \ says it's greater sport ' than tennis new york dec 3 jay gould grand son of the late jay-gould who knew all about financial ballooning announced him self to-night as an enthusiastic sfudent of aeronautics and within a few days will purchase an aeroplane of the most prac tical kind that can be obtained young gould after gaining a world's champion ship at court tennis ft seeking other worlds to conquer although i ain but a recent convert to the study of aeronautics said mr gould to-night at the meeting of the recently formed columbia university aero club in faculty hall i never experienced such an enthusiasm for anything ln my life ten nis ls nothing in comparison the more i heaifabout the fight to conquer the air the more i want to take part ln the con quering of it i shall spare no effort to accomplish my desire to purchase aeroplane i intend to purchase an aeroplane of the most practical kind as soon as i have decided which is best i shall run it my self i ahall continue my studies ln aeron autics every spare moment i can devote to the entrancing problem i hope to try demonstrate and improve at a meeting of the club young gould read a thesis which was declared interest ing learned yet comprehensive almost from the flrst sentence he talked about balloons and the density and displacement of bodies ln the air as well as the acoom plishments of the wright brothers in as familiar a way as did his grandfather forty years ago of gold when prices went soar ing and set wall street in a panic congratulated by experts wlhen young gould had finished the old time students of aerial problems present dr charles c trowbridge a m herring wilbur r kimball dr julian p thomas and augustus fost who had also addressed the club on-t ifironnnti topic jt>ool hands vlth the thesis reader and predicted that he would eclipse anything yel done in the latest of sciences the new cluh has for its officers the fol lowing president robert ludlow fowler jr flrst vice president grover cleveland loening second vice president george henry warren jr secretary and treas urer harold a content mr loening was the first student to enter the new course in addition to young gould's thesis an other was read by h g henderson jr and a number of stereopticon slides were exhibited illustrating points made in the various addresses much married widow seeks pfaff millions london woman who secured south dakota divorce making fight i boston mass dec 3 a story of mar riages and divorces that took place with the bewildering rapidity of a kaleidoscope was told on the witness stand to-day by mrs christine pfaff of london england whoj although she admits that she secured a sonth dakota divorce claims to be the real and only widow of the late henry pfaff the brewer who left a million dollar estate to mrs louise c pfaff my wife although she got the divoroe she says it was illegal and proved so when lu 1901 she brought suit for 2 r ooo hack alimony nnd pfaff fought it on the grounds that the divorce was not valid the courts upheld him she said she was married in 1897 to samuel bograt but it was only a joke marriage in 1899 she married b c cass an englishman but left him when she learned her divorce from pfaff was illegal germain consul wever to receive degree of ll d university of Chicago will honor diplomat who goes to africa at tlie convocation on december is the i'niverslty of Chicago will confer ou dr waiter wever imperial german consul general at Chicago the honorary degree of doctors of laws this is in recognition of his valuable service in helping to bring about a friendly understanding und inter change between the educational institutions of the two countries dr wever was large ly concerned in organizing the germanistlc society of Chicago under whose auspices universities in germany and the united states exchange professors temporarily dr wever has been appointed consul gen eral in south africa two villages wrecked by mountain landslides twenty-seven dead and ten injured are taken from debris rome dec 3 a landslide at mount san lucano near agordo wrecked the vil lages of pra and lagunaz to-day the bodies of twenty-seven dead and ten in jured persons have been taken out of the debris dr bull's death is near new york dec 3 the death of dr william t bull the eminent new york surgeon is hourly expected dr bull has been suffering with cancer and he has realized recently that his end was near millions in trust's false sugar scale secret spring inserted when the government appraisers weigh shipments device shown in court detective illustrates how cor poration cheated with a steel corset rib new york dec 3 richard parr a special agent of the united states treas ury told under oath to-day before commis sioned shields of how he had trapped the american sugar refining company ln a practice that would shame a mean and cheating small grocer tampering with the scales they bad loaned to the government so that they recorded short weight on the sugar unloaded from the ships for appraise ment the scales were normally correct and would stand inspection according to the testimony of parr but by means of a secret spring attached by the agents of the sugnr trust tbey registered far short of the correct weight agent pait ls the chief witness for the prosecution in the seven suits brought against the american sugar refining com ! pany to recover customs duties aggre \ gating 3,624,1^1.15 for the alleged fraudu lent weighing of sugar imported during thei past six years as he is about to leave the city on an important government mission his examination was put forward so that he could testify to-day he said that on november 20 1907 he visited the docks of the havenieyer & el der refinery in williamsburg where sugar from the steamship spiathyre was being unloaded and weighed in the course of the investigation he^made there he discov ered steel springs fhieh had been inserted in holes in the beams of the wooden plat fcim scales and found that they interfered with the accurate weighing of the sugar taken from the steamship when the steel springs were removed said agent parr and the lots of sugar rewclgbed the weight of each lot was in creased on an average of fourteen pounds agent parr said that he took possession of the springs and with the identical articles demonstrated while he was testify ing to-day how the device worked the wooden beams of the scales being among the government's exhibits in the case the seventeen sets cf scales on the sugar docks by the manipulation of the secret spring or steel wire all registered false weights in favor of the company " fiaid agent parr i found the posts of all of them bored so that the steel spriugs could be inserted in such a manner as to rest on the arm or lever of the scale and by its pressure deceive the government weigher while the bags of sugar were be ing weighed photographs of all the scales with the steel spring attachment were placed in evidence as government exhibits agent parr was closely cross-examined by henry p cochrane representing the reflning com pany he said that before entering the customs service he had been a clerk for dan deogau of rochester who har priv ileges at fairs and race tracks and was later employed in a stock broker's office ln this city he admitted that during the last twenty years he had at different times owned race horses during the ten years that you have been in the government's service did you ever do duty at the sugar docks in brook lyn v i was a sugar sampler for about a month in 1w0 while there did you notice anything wroug in the weighing of sugar unloaded rrom steamships not until november im 1907 when 1 fouud the piece of corset steel on scale no 1 which prevented the drafts of sugar from being weigued correctly you made memoranda regarding those cases did you uot i did but my book was stolen or re moved from my desk in the custom house about the first part of this year do you know a man named whalley parr said that he expected to get extra compensation if the government won the suits girl slayer is exonerated widow's attack prevented g-irl absolved from blame in killing henry hornberger in a dispute over a crayon portrait and widow of slain man and companion leaving inquest ooroneii's jury declares es telle stout not responsible a'vhen bpfe-??not agent - women are hysterical mrs hornberger prevented from violence to accused by inquest officers | thank god thank god i am uot ullty of any wrongdoing ob 1 am so ladf it is a shame a shame to let a girl ike that go she ought to be punished i'hls thing is not through with yet m these two sharply opposing sentiments rolced impulsively by two women yester lay just after a coroner's jury had exon erated miss estelle stout of 778 west danis street for halving shot and killed henry h hornberger a picture dealer ivho had attacked miss stout's sister mrs leorge chambers formed the climax of an investigation replete with inci lent one of the women w-fti miss stout and tin other the widow of the slain man miss stout was almost hysterical with joy ind mrs hornberger was beside herself ivith grief and rage widow attacks girl slayer at the beginning of the inquest mrs hornberger had attempted to attack miss stout and a policeman had to restrain her during the four hours of testimony taking the widow and the sister of the accused young woman wept continuously hut it was not until after the jury had rendered its verdict that miss stout found relief in tears while the witnesses were on the stand she held herself in tense constraint and she did not falter even when reciting iter own version of how she had iakeu a liuinnn life \ there was a sharp conflict of testimony on the point of whether hornberger was inside the chambers house or walking to ward the street when he was shot mrs mary carlson 780 west adams street said the man was outside the house and walk ing toward his wagon when he was shot mrs elizabeth littlejohn 023 west adams street testuied that she heard a shot and then saw hornberger leave the house herbert eicke 928 north winchester ave nue said hornberger did not leave the house nt all but staggered out from an areaway between the chambers bouse and nnother residence sisters tell of threats the testimony of miss stout and mrs hambers agreed their statement was hat mrs chambers and hornberger strug gled for the possession of a crayon portrait jf a dead sister of the two women and mrs chambers hand was cut on the frame hornberger threatened to shoot mrs chambers and theu struck her and knocked her dowu miss stout ran to mother room procured a pistol returned j ind shot at hornberger he then left the louse nnd went to his wagon and miss tout did not know that she had wounded ilm until he sank to the pavement and lied the verdict of the jury read that miss stout was laboring under intense exeite nent and fear for the life of herself and lister and we the jory recommend her elease from custoiij - .^ missing nobleman sought in Chicago young wanderer to gain title by death of father earl of glencoe gideon lord of glencoe said to be heir to a scottish title and estates is a wan derer in america perhaps in Chicago ills sister lady maud has engaged the serv ices of a Chicago lawyer to find hlni so that he may be informed that his father karl of glencoe is dead and he the only son has come into the succession attorney patrick j carey who has for some weeks been in correspondence with lady maud expects to start for england within a few days to confer with the fam ily the young lord left his ancestral home among the grampiou hills to tramp about the world for a few years attorney carey states that all was not pleasant at home between the youth and his ather who was ailing and a hypochondriac dis satisfaction with these relations led the hlgh-splrlted young man who is not yet eighteen years old to depart with the re solve that lie would buffet about in strange lands until he had reached his majority he remained in communication with his sister for several months after his depart ure he wrote from xew york later from windsor ont and last on september 22 from Chicago but iu none of the letters did he write how he could be communi cated with or how he was making his way which left no clew by which he could be successfully traced his father the karl died on august l'4 the title has not been prominent during the lifetime of the late earl who was a secluded bookworm the estate also has dwindled and is not of the maguiticeut im portance which it once commanded and therefore the death of the earl was uot broadly heralded through the world it ls regarded as quite probable that the young nobleman is not yet aware of hl-s father's death hurke's peerage the authority on british titles does uot show an entry of the earl of glencoe nor any ether noble family of that name nor the surname of attorney carey's correspond ent cleudenuiu 150,000 art shipment seized in Chicago customs officers see evidence of smuggling plot in three mysterious crates all hold rare antiques priceless fabrics and other ob jects may be loot from french monasteries were declared at 2,000 consigned from london t new yorker claimed by chi cago brokers year later a collection of almost price less antiques tapestries vel ours vestments and rugs torn from the wallÃŸ and taken from the cloisters of old french monasteries where they probably had rested for centuries is ln the hands of the united states customs officials in Chicago the presence of the collection in tha hands of the seizure bureau is the cli max of an international mystery the customs officers assisted by se cret service men are looking for the owners of this shipment of rare treas ures such as would delight the-heart of any connoisseur in the world they believe that they have unearthed a deep-laid plot to smusglo the goods into the country . boxed up in the office of thomas a o'shaughnessy appraiser of the port of Chicago are these richly embroid ered hand-wrought treasures some of them as brilliant in coloring and as delicate of tracing as the day on which they were finished others showing the ravages of time and the wear and tear | of centuries easily traced to france the whole forms a collection such as is 1 seldom seen in this country it ia one to | delight the heart of a j pierpont morgan a william a clark a j ogden armour a james hobart moore a charles l hutchin son or a mrs cyrus h mccormick all col lectors of note and known equally well iu europe and america experts who have examined these an tiques say that they came from france they are all ecclesiastical jn character and they came from the ancient french mon asteries at the time of the separation of churel and state a fÂ«v years ago when the religious orders were driven from the country whether the monasteries were despoiled of their treasure or whether they were purchased from the monks t tl time that they were forced to leave their liauitatious is n question that the united states government is now trying to solve some articles bear dates in the lot are a silken hand-woven and hand-worked robe believed to have been at one time the property of a pope a piece of hand-wrought embroidery evi dently a panel with a likeness of st john the baptist worked in brilliant colors and bearing a sixteenth century date a hand-paiuted panel of the madonna and child made in the sixteenth century women's costumes of the most delicate fabrics beautifully embroidered such as were woru ln the seventeenth century an old chinese hunting mat woveh iu the fifteenth century a large panel of red italian velour em broidered with au ancient coat of arms several altar cloths woven of pure silver and golden threads with hand made gold and sliver fringe considered priceless indian hunting carpets of the most fan tastic design came by way of england other pieces in the collection are velvets nets of old italian filets pieces of fine old brussels gorgeous tapestries all kinds of old hangings panels evidently stripped bodily from some ancient palace or mon astery table covers exquisite in their delicacy persian and turkish rugs all very old thirty pieces of rare old lace fifty vestments page garments women's vestments and church furnishings the ownership of these treasures to shrouded ln mystery they evidently were first shipped from france to eng land from london they were shipped to ( hicago in bond the records show that the consignor is one s hobiuson the consignee is one benqulat the latter la thought te bo a new york dealer in an tiques the valuation placed on the goods hy the shippers was 2,000 they have lain in the Chicago customs boaae for more than a year one crate taken away about four weeks ago walesa a mc laughlin brokers at 362 Illinois street acting as agents for the mysterious con continue-d on 2d page 2d column wll weather forecast m t i Chicago and vicinity snow f j $ 3 or rain friday saturday clearing Â«.| \ \ and colder brisk to high south jjtf mji shifting to northwest winds w andrew mack's latest and greatest song sometime somewhere every night takes the audience at the audito rium theater bv storm words and music free with the next great sunday examiner place your order now i***^^^^^^^~^^mmmmmmmmmmmm mm t m^mmm*smstjr m^p in the rush 1 of christmas shopping it is not un ftjjtu likely that one will lose one's purse vs j \ quick recovery is made possible by v j the insertion of a small ad in the 1 j examiner's lost and found column ljm phone randolph 2500 &Â§&.